It was in this way that Brandon was able to take Crystal's face in his hands so he could look directly into her eyes. That's how he realized that the woman who was making his heart beat like only one in the past had done, was starting to beat faster than it should.
"Please, Crystal, tell me what you're talking about.”
"Don't hurt me anymore, stop it, Brandon, stop all this.”
"Crystal.”
"I haven't been able to forgive you for what you did to me and you continue hurting me.”
"Crystal.”
"Just let me leave your life, so I can be grateful to you for the rest of eternity.”
"Crystal!” Brandon called louder when he realized that his wife had gone into a state of shock.
Crystal finally looked him in the eyes and it was in that second that she realized that for the first time, a man was looking at her with love and respect for her person. Not being able to resist anymore what the two were feeling there, Brandon, holding Crystal's face in his hands, not being able to bear seeing her lips away from him anymore, not being able to stand that look that she was giving him, from one moment to the next he knew how to end the distance that was separating them, joining their lips for the first time in a long time and this time, it was a sincere kiss. A kiss that they both always wanted even if they weren't able to let the other know.
Together the two hearts that deserved to be together began to dance in a dance that could last all night. Crystal no longer doubted anything, at least that night she didn't want to doubt anything anymore after everything that had happened, now she just wanted to believe, believe that the person who was kissing her was the same person she had kept in her heart for a long time.
A slow kiss was what the two were experiencing at that moment. A kiss that made forbidden passions and the same hidden passions become present.
Brandon, being delicate with his wife's body, made her rest in the same couch in which they had been sitting without being able to separate herself from his lips. What was about to happen was the same thing they had never thought would happen between the two of them.
And it was in that way that the moon and only the moon witnessed what happened at that moment when they were most lost.
*****
Once again and little by little, Crystal's eyes opened. Now that she realized where she was and what she was feeling around her, there was no space, on the contrary, she felt that her body couldn't move easily. On her skin, the sun coming in from the windows burned her. There was something else that she didn't fully remember. Something that had happened that didn't come to her mind easily, an infinite number of memories. Until finally memories hit her mind. Now she had it, now she realized where she woke up, now she realized the reason, now she realized why the sun burned her skin that way, now she realized the reason why she felt so uncomfortable
Finally, being able to get up from her place, she realized that she was completely naked on the floor next to a man, the same man with whom she had spent the night, with whom she had shared more smiles than she had ever done before in her life. It was Brandon the person who woke up next to her, it was Brandon in whom she had completely taken refuge, her naked body woke up winged from him.
She immediately put a hand to her head, she couldn't believe what was happening, she couldn't believe that this had been possible between them after a long time of just arguing, a contract marriage where the most they were going to share was a bed with a line in the middle that prevented them from touching each other. All it took was a few too many drinks, the liquor running through their veins, the laughter, the smiles and everything that made them get there.
She slowly turned to look at the man next to her. He was still asleep on the floor, next to her. Without further ado, not wanting to think more and feeling ashamed enough not to have the face to see him when he woke up, she quickly got up and wrapped one of the sheets around her body and then ran to the bathroom. He couldn't see her wake up next to him, everything had been left behind, everything had stayed in the same place and at the same time when they kissed for the first time.
When she got to the bathroom, she locked herself in. Tears wanted to come out of her eyes at once, she carefully walked to the mirror in front of her. She, that was what she wouldn't have wanted to happen between them, where was her value as a woman? The more she thought about it, she realized that what had happened between them, for her, was not a moment with the Brandon who had signed the documents, but with the Brandon that she came to know and that was the same one that sparked love more sincere in her heart. For a moment she came to believe that this Brandon was no longer the trustworthy person who forced her to do so many things.
A sarcastic smile emerged from her. She couldn't continue thinking about what she couldn't change, so just like that, she went into the bathroom, right where the shower was, and without worrying about the hot water, she preferred to bathe with the cold water that she should have taken last night.
In her mind a thousand memories, in her mind the way Brandon had treated her, the first time being with him, being treated so delicately, being treated the way she always wanted to be treated by a man but surely in his mind, having another woman, a woman who would never be her.
And in the end, what was happening downstairs the moment Brandon woke up? Didn't he need the memories to come to his mind, didn't he need the alcohol to stop running through his veins to understand what had happened? At that moment, a smile appeared on his face, he still did not open his eyes and he was already able to know who the person was next to him, so being that way, Brandon opened his eyes suddenly. Unfortunately, his smile was erased the moment he realized that no one else woke up next to him, Crystal was no longer there, the woman with whom he had shared so many laughs one night ago was no longer there, and above all, his feelings for having surrendered him after so long of having given up a woman.
"Crystal," he said, seeing that she was not around him. It was a shame he couldn't see her anywhere.
He didn't even know he had taken it to that extreme, the only thing he had in his head was that that couldn't be possible.
When Crystal was finally in the room, she was unable to concentrate on anything other than what had happened that night. With the white robe wrapped around her body and with a towel on her head, Crystal took a seat on the bed. With so many things in her head, with so many memories that were repeated there as if it were a movie, on the bureau, exactly where she had her gaze almost fixed, she managed to see one more photo. The same photo that had been in the room they had left behind was now a smaller size of the same photo. The same smile on the faces of both of them, Brandon had not been as happy as that day or at least, at least it was that one night ago that same smile had been seen on his face.Carefully and in her hands, she took the photo from the bureau. She didn't know how or why but she had gotten involved with Brandon while he surely had Tábata on his mind."Why? Why did you make me fall for your charms?" Crystal asked with two tears coming out of her eyes. Without fu
8:30 p.m., clad in a black dress, which revealed her beautiful shoulders, her brown hair tied up to perfection, the cleavage between her chest that was not vulgar and a whole world ahead in which surely, her opinion and her strength were going to try to be trampled. The world around her didn't matter anymore. Armed with her cousin, Crystal arrived at that place where there should be no room for her husband, Brandon Lambert. Her grandfather's birthday celebration was just taking place.As soon as the doors opened, Crystal's eyes fell on all those people who had been invited only to be trampled by her grandfather when he said how well the company's sales had been going and of course, thanks to the fact that he sold his granddaughter as if she were anything else.Brandon was already there, it had been a lie when she said dhe couldn't attend due to health problems.Brandon's heart seemed to resent those words when she said it over the phone. And now that he saw reality, he realized that C
Frightened, Crystal moved from the desk without dropping the documents she had already found. The person looking at her was the same one who was stalking her to find the destiny he had imposed on her. The smile on his depredator was something she couldn't stand no matter how hard she tried."What is this all about?” She asked annoyingly, what she was beginning to feel for her grandfather was just hate, hatred and nothing more than that."Have you not read them? Or, do you once again need time to realize what it says and what you have committed to do?”"Tell me once and for all what this is about!”"Don't you dare yell at me!”"I won't do it as long as you tell me what's happening!”"This is a new contract, my dear granddaughter, haven't you read it? Do you need someone to come and translate it for you? Do you need Brandon to come and find out about this?”Crystal shook her head, not wanting to see the monster that had raised her. Her grandfather was never good, her grandfather only wa
While at the party, Brandon kept observing the hallways of the Bennett house without seeing his wife coming out from anywhere, something was not right and now that he thought about it, what was right in his life from the moment they two had joined in marriage? Nothing was right. Nothing.At his side, Crystal's cousin arrived."Do you know where my cousin is?" Sebastian asked, drinking from his wine. Brandon looked at him. "I saw she came in with you, where is she?”"Well, you see she's not with me." Sebastian said, watching Brandon worry.Now that he thought about it, he had seen his wife and her grandfather talking. That could only mean one thing, one thing only. Crystal, his wife, was in trouble.Just as Brandon decided to go look for her, his cell phone immediately started ringing. Brandon looked at Sebastian as if asking his permission to answer before seeing his wife."Do whatever you want," Sebastian said, walking forward to see his cousin.And without anything stopping him,
For her part, Crystal didn't know what else to think, first he was the man who had treated her with so much love one night before and now he was the man who had just watched everything from a distance while she was humiliated by her own grandfather along with Mr. Lambert.Scared or rather, wanting to look like she was scared when she was really happy about what she had just seen they had done to Crystal, Tábata went after them.Right at the exit she saw them, all that her eyes witnessed was the detestable way in which Crystal pushed Brandon aside as if she didn't want him to be her protection at that moment and given the circumstances, who would like a man to act as her protection in front of everyone when the reality is that he had made fun of her from a few meters back?"Let go of me and let me go," she asked with tears in her eyes."I won't do it! Why do you see everything how only you want to see it? Why don't you realize the reality? Why don't you realize that now I have stayed h
While at the Lambert house, Mr. Lambert and Mrs. Victoria, and Enrique drank and ate the sandwiches that the servants had brought. There was nothing else to talk about there other than business and more business."At least my grandson is doing something right," said Mr. Lambert, clearly still upset by what he had not managed to do that morning.He was on his way to the Bennett house when Enrique's call made a detour just to tell him that he needed to talk to Brandon about a business that was going to start taking place between them."Please, Mr. Lambert, my son has always shown himself to be a person who takes everything that has to do with the company responsibly," said Mrs. Victoria. Mr. Lambert only made a not very friendly gesture and then drank from his wine."Well, why don't you tell us about the business? I deserve to know too, don't I?”"Of course, Mr. Lambert," Enrique said.At that moment, the front door was heard opening. The person they were waiting for had arrived. Wi
In Crystal's house, the same one that Victoria had told her was not hers, she was sitting on the couch, unable to stop looking at the document that her mother-in-law had left her. All that woman wanted was to continue enjoying everything that money gave her along with the power that her son had to lead the company. How much more was Brandon going to endure in the same situation? How much longer until he realized that his mother was just using him? And even if he already knew it, how much more time would have to pass before the day would come when he would rebel against his mother?No calls on his cell phone. She no longer cared at all what she had to endure because sooner rather than later she was going to be free as she always wanted to be, Crystal would live the life she wanted from the beginning, Brandon would finally be able to marry Tábata, there was nothing that prevented them from being together now. Crystal's heart couldn't be happier, she simply couldn't imagine what a littl
Two wooden doors that opened in front of his eyes. Crystal sighed. Even if everything she had been through had made her fall, made her go weak, that was the last thing she should show in front of the two men who were already waiting for her and who smiled when she saw her there, in front of them."It's nice to see you here once again, Miss Crystal Bennett," Enrique said."Go ahead, daughter, go ahead," said Mr. Brown tenderly. That was what that young woman with the sad look caused to Mr. Brown. There were times when he saw her as a woman full of life and strength but there were other times that he saw her as the one whose time was running out more due to the pain in her soul than for the problems she could carry.Crystal entered the room, on the large desk there was already that document that was waiting for Crystal's signature. Her plan was beginning, her life was almost back to her and she only needed to take that pen in her hands to make a single signature, a key."What we’re com
TWO DAYS LATER"So this is the end?" Brandon asked as he stopped with Tábata's suitcases.Tabata smiled immediately. "It's not the end, I already told you, I've told you thousands of times," she said, wanting and hoping that Brandon was okay.She knew better than anyone how much it had cost him to get to that point where Brandon could now dress as a confident man, a man who went against everything and everyone no matter what. For him life had not been simple at all, for him life had always been that way, stumble after stumble with the difference that now he knew how to go against that.The last thing Tábata wanted was for her best friend and almost soul brother to relapse once again. He just didn't deserve it, he just didn't, of all people he didn't. He had already fought enough for things to be different. He had fought enough, Brandon couldn't just fall into the flames of his grandfather's hell once again. "You're going to be okay, Brandon, you're going to be okay," she said, cares
What had become of the people who were involved in that story that seemed to never end? A story without end, that was it, a story that was never going to be made head or tail of because this was not the sweet love story between a sad CEO and a needy secretary like the majority found outside, this was the story of someone who suffers, of someone who goes out of their way for the time that passes and the time that stops being for every time he thought of her the way he still did after five years.Five years had passed for everyone, for some it was a time that passed slowly while for others they could describe those five years as the time that passes and is the same that is not felt.Crystal's cousin, Sebastian, had found happiness in the hands and eyes of another person. The same one that came as a light on his path after so much that had happened, Crystal and Brandon weren't the only ones who had problems in the world, Sebastian also had problems with himself, with the world around him
FIVE YEARS LATERLike time that passes slowly, like time that goes away and never comes back, how we end up paying for our mistakes, in the way we behave, in the way we act, always being the one that directed us to the destination that is before us. prepared not because it has been written that way but because simply, we choose it, we are the owners of our lives, we are the ones who decide to live life as we see fit. Unfortunately, there are mistakes that stay forever, there are mistakes that in life can never be repaired, such as Brandon's mistake with Crystal.This was not the typical love story where she could forgive him everything just because while they stayed together living happily ever after when the reality is that she would continue to be the one to deal with the insecurity problems that her husband had.Neither Brandon sought to make her more miserable nor did she herself seek to stay where she knew the destiny that could always be waiting for her.Five years had passed an
ONE MONTH LATERExactly one month had passed since the last time Brandon Lambert had heard from the woman he loved most in his life. A month had passed since that moment of pain where he stayed on his knees in that airport in France wanting to think that at any moment Crystal was going to appear to illuminate his life, to make him strong when he was losing all his energy, a month had passed and the truth was that nothing he had done seemed to serve any purpose. Crystal simply seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth.No one knew anything about Wyatt in the same way. Even Brandon had reached the end of his desperation that he had gone to his cousin, just to ask if she could know anything about Wyatt. She clearly told him that she had no contact with him since the moment he broke off their engagement.As Brandon investigated further, he began to think that Crystal was always a fake, she just wanted to have the power to leave with the person she really wanted, Tábata had bee
Without caring about anything, leaving the doors of the car that Brandon was getting out of, he arrived at the airport as he himself had proposed, he didn't know much about where she was going, he only had in mind the flight schedule, everything that he could do was run, run and run and believe that at any moment his eyes would be able to see the same beautiful woman with whom he had shared the previous night.People only saw him running like a crazy man, the women thinking that it was a romantic story in which he had done so much damage to the woman he loved the most, the woman he loved most in life, but in the end he realized his mistakes and now he went after her in the hope of finding her there. While men thought and saw him as a crazy man whose life was passing away, of course those who thought that were the same ones who had never felt love firsthand."Crystal, Crystal!" Brandon started shouting throughout the airport. He no longer cared who people saw him or how they were seein
To say that hatred grew in Brandon's heart was an understatement. He felt something beyond hatred. His best friend, the person who said he loved him the most, was the same person who had separated him from his great childhood love. "How could you, Tabata?”"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Brandon." She looked down."It's because of you that I couldn't go behind her!”"Now I'm telling you, go after her, go and tell her how much you love her, don't let her go because she's about to board with Wyatt for France.”“What?!”"I'm sorry, Brandon, I'm so sorry with all my heart.”"That's not enough, Tábata, you are going to pay for this!” He said the moment he was about to leave.Laughter filled the office. "It's a shame that it's a child who is playing at love. Now I understand Wyatt's words, Crystal doesn't deserve a man like you. If you want to go after her, heal yourself and accept that you humiliated her and were the first to extinguish the flame of her love.” Passing close to him, Tábata left
Without stopping thinking over and over again about the words that Tábata had said to him the previous night, thinking that she could be right, he had to let Crystal be happy with Brandon. He couldn't help but continue thinking about the truth that she had given him. Tábata was not pregnant but Crystal was, on top of that they loved each other but the truth was that he couldn't allow Crystal, a woman who was so valuable, to stay with a jerk like Brandon. An immature man who had done so much to her. He deserved nothing in life but death itself.A little out of alignment, Wyatt arrived at his office and as he sat down, on the desk he saw a white envelope and with fine ink it had Wyatt's name written on it. That letter seemed to be for him.With great curiosity he began to unfold the letter. Who could have given him something like that?Then he started reading…Dear Wyatt….I hope you haven't forgotten my words in that cafeteria when I told you that I would think about your proposal, I t
Brandon and Crystal, those names sounded excellent together, it was a shame they had never been seen that way, it was a shame it was Crystal's eyes that filled with tears every time Brandon was near her, it was as if his presence would hurt in the same way it healed. By that moment, Crystal could already realize that she was facing a human being, a person who had just shown himself transparent to her, from whom the thousand chains that imprisoned him had fallen, from whom the white veils had been revealed in his against and had fallen to show Crystal who he truly was.Crystal and Brandon, two people who had dreams alike, people whose lives had been destroyed by other people.And while Brandon talked about that past that hurt so much in his soul, and while Crystal thought about his words, she realized that all she wanted to do was leave clean and that way she could start over in life with that little one who God had power in her womb. It was time to tell him that she was the girl who
In the same night in which some shared a single heart, in the same night in which the looks of those said more than words could say, there were also, under the same sky, those who went out of their way to find an answer to the love that they were feeling in their soul.Under the same sky there were also those who could not have an answer to their feelings."Why did you send for me, Tábata?" Wyatt asked, not knowing why she had called him in the middle of the night.It's been a long time since they saw each other, it's been a long time since they even met up to talk about the past, or about the good times that the three of them had and that made them not want to part with each other as well as the other.The moments together, the moments when Tábata couldn't leave Brandon's side for fear that he was going to miss his true mission, those days when she thought it was just her in his life were already behind him and there was nothing to do, now another person occupied the place that she a